. Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions. complete, till he had made his deceit public ;which he did in the following manner : He employed the money, which he had obtained for the prints, in preparinga iupper, to which he invited Mr. Hudfon and feveral other artifis, and the prin-cipal dim of the entertainment was a cold roaft firloin of beef, which was gar-nilhed with a number of the fame prints by which Hudfon had been this occafion Hogarth was alfo invited, and his exultation and pleafurewas rather intemperat
. Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions. complete, till he had made his deceit public ;which he did in the following manner : He employed the money, which he had obtained for the prints, in preparinga iupper, to which he invited Mr. Hudfon and feveral other artifis, and the prin-cipal dim of the entertainment was a cold roaft firloin of beef, which was gar-nilhed with a number of the fame prints by which Hudfon had been this occafion Hogarth was alfo invited, and his exultation and pleafurewas rather intemperate upon the occafion. Much cannot befaid in praifeof this frolic, nor of the talents of Wilfon for imita-tion, as the two prints which he produced have not that confirmed maftery of exe-cution, which diftinguilbestheprintsof Rembrant. It may betrulyfaid,that Wilfondifcovered his vanity by attempting the deception, while Hudfon betrayed theweaknefs of his judgment by not detecting the impofition, which, by the datesof the prints, muft have been practifed at two different and diftant periods of time. 3. His. RE MB RAN DT -Vaii-RHEIXPeintre et Graveur. ne en z£o6 , inoT-ta ^4mstc-rdajii en iO<?8? Anecdotes of Painting. 149 3. His own portrait in a wig, with very little drapery—Theplate 5 in. fquare. 4. A very rough etching, intitled, The Repeal. It waspublifhed upon the repeal of the American ftamp a6t. It is a fatire upon the miniftry who fupported that meafure,and contains the portraits of the leading men of the minifterialparly.—The late Alderman Boydell told the author of thefeanecdotes, that Wilfon made three hundred pounds by the faleof that print, at the low price of fix-pence each—Size of theplate 16 in. ^ by 11 in. £. There are alfo feveral mezzotintos after pictures which hepainted; among them are the following: Mr. Garrick in the character of Hamlet, half-length, fcrapedby Mac Ardel ; dated 1754. A fcene in King Lear; Garrick as Lear. With another por-trait, h
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